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A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials,… — Hailee Steinfeld
When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the… — Julia Ward Howe
I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and culture without it.… — Richard Dawkins
The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode… — Simone Weil
As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. — Van Wyck Brooks
I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and put words… — Robert Harris
I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with… — Chuck Palahniuk
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than… — James Surowiecki
My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their voices and seeing… — Sherry Turkle
The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying. — Jean Dieudonne
The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery. — Joseph Fourier
In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves,… — Jose Raul Capablanca
To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame. — Jose Raul Capablanca
Capablanca did not apply himself to opening theory (in which he never therefore achieved much), but delved deeply into the study of end-games and other… — Max Euwe
In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's a fantastic game… — Judit Polgar
My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed… — Vasily Smyslov
...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it.… — Imogen Cunningham
In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute someone may appear… — Robert Adams
The main thing is to study pictures and stop listening to the pontifictaions of photographers. Photographers aren't oracles of wisdom. If they're good photographers, then… — Elliott Erwitt

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